You still don't get it, because you are fixated on "change date".

What I do is more akin to medieval life - where the sun and its GRADUAL change dictated when people woke up and went to bed.

As for scheduling - I call bullshit. Scheduling already is a nightmare, mostly due to Outlook being 10 years behind and people unable to use even that. Me starting and ending work when I want has never, not once, impacted any business meetings and doesn't make setting them up any more difficult.

This is nonsense. They skim from the first subcontractor to maximize proceeds from the top line while maintaining deniability. The prime gets a slice and then there's a sub-sub tree leaking all the way that eventually converges at a boiler room in India where the actual work is performed for $500.

Absolutely not. And what I do is totally not DST "packaged differently". The main difference is that I can pick my own time, I can change it on any day I want, I can move smoothly instead of having on "everyone change" day, and I'm not forced into it.

Yes, with school that won't work, agree. Most office jobs, on the other hand, already have flexible time schedules.

Were the product key labels fake? That wasn't stated in the brief, only that she was said to have "illegally trafficked MS product key labels".
It's more like someone purchasing a case of valid store product coupons for cheap, finding a way to market them to the public selling them for a bit more than she paid. Just look at what she was charged with, ie not providing the software with the product key labels.

This reminds me of when Microsoft send their goons after school districts across the US threatening license verification processes costing 10s of thousands of dollars or else relicense the latest versions of Microsoft software. They only stopped when a couple of school districts removed Windows and Microsoft software and installed Linux and open source software AND did a presentation at the annual schools IT conference on how they saved 100s of thousands of dollars annually by dumping Microsoft.

Hopefully she finds some lawyers willing to take up the appeal and expose how this is a corporate policy failure, not a criminal action.
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This is one of those things where lawyers will get involved and say "this was not explicitly mentioned in the terms of carriage so therefore my client is owed compensation for being told not to be an arsehole". It's mainly an American thing as the courts in most countries will accept the "failed to follow instructions from the cabin crew" part.

I think this is more of an issue if you fly cheap airlines to "party" destinations. The routes I fly typically don't have hens parties on them (London-Madrid, London-Singapore, Madrid-Bogota)... Will be totally different to the Ryanair special to Malaga.

I drink but don't drink on aircraft precisely because drinking and flying makes me a cranky Carl (I like to enjoy my drinking).

I don't think they were ever introduced.

Ryanair likes to make outlandish statements that will never happen because it gets their name in the papers, which as far as they're concerned is free advertising.

Ryanair... it's not just the name of the airline, it's also the cheapest sandwich (rye and air... I'm working my arse off here people).

Yep, MS has finally realised that Linux has become a genuine alternative for gamers. The only thing stopping me from swapping is the fact I need a new SSD (which aren't cheap right now) as Steam doesn't tend to like using NTFS drives and due to a steam install based decades ago, it's difficult to use a steamapps folder in a non standard location (I.E. D:\program files\steam\steamapps), which is why I need the new SSD to transfer the installs.

I expect MS to make a complete hash of it though. I'm certain Steam went through a lot of teething issues with Linux and Steamdeck but they seem to have solved most of them.

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Make work and school start and end at different times in summer and winter then, problem solved. I've been doing that for years now. Working from home benefits, I know. In winter I start work at 9. In summer, at 8. About, not exactly. It works great.

I don't know about the US, but in my country the official reasoning was to save energy. And study after study has since shown that's not true and no energy is actually saved.

I believe they already have moved, it was malicious compliance.

This is largely in response to the EU forcing Apple to allow in app purchases to go via someone other than Apple, to which Apple did the minimum they could to try to meet the letter of the law (ignoring the spirit of the law, which doesn't make you popular with the EU).

It's in the summary.

They're only lowering the cut on in-app purchases, likely in response to the EU directives forcing Apple to allow apps to manage their own in-app purchases independent of Apple (you could always do this on Android). They "might" be lowering their cut on app sales themselves.

I suspect like me, most people just aren't using "apps" any more, everything I need can be accessed via web browsers (Firefox with ublock and privacy badger installed) as apps have just become delivery vehicles for ads you can't block and a means to rape your wallet with in-app purchases. Also the Google Play store is atrocious these days so Google is trying to get developers back by offering them a discount.

They were lost in delusions long before AI came along. I doubt it's helping though.

To be fair, that describes a great many people as well, unable to tell fiction from reality.

I was afraid of that. Still, it's an improvement over IBM's early electronic mail, which used Josephoartigasia Monesi.